0681 Stepite, Geschieber vein, Svornost Mine (Einigkeit Mine), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal), Jachymov (St Joachimsthal) District, Krusne Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Type locality. A uranium arsenate that occurs as green tabular crystals and spherical aggregates on weathered arsenic matrix.
0671 Fluorite, High Skears Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK
Composed of honey yellow cubic fluorite crystals with inky blue color zone exterior edge phantoms. The specimen comes from the High Skears Mine, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Middleton, North Pennines, County Durham, England, UK. It measures 6.5×5.0×2.8cm in...
Deaccessioned 0654 Halite, Detroit Salt Company Mine (International Salt Company Mine), Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, USA
Excellent colourless transparent cubic crystals reaching 2.2 cm in diameter and is basically all halite with the large clear crystals on the top of the piece growing on a much smaller light tan crystal base....
0646 Garronite, Garron Plateau, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Redefined in 2015 after garronite-Na described from Mont Saint Hilaire.
0633 Siderite, Vivianite, Wannon Falls, Wannon River, Wannon, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3575, acquired from Museum Victoria. Dark brown trigonal crystals. Minor vivianite on one edge.
0631 Ferrierite-(Mg), Chabazite, Redcliff Head, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria
Pearly white hemispheres of ferrierite-Mg, showing the radiating form on broken surfaces. Look closely and you can see orange chabazite beneath the clay layer, and a few tiny colourless chabazite crystals sprinkled on top of...
0607 Azurite, Quartz, Malachite, Burra Burra Mine, Burra, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Ex Joan Lamond 3156, received as a gift from Frank Robinson in 1986. Drusy quartz coats azurite crystals. One or two are pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite.
0603 Carpholite, Horni Slavkov (Schlaggenwald), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Bohmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond 3704, but number does not match her Micro Collection Catalogue. Probably from her other mineral collection. Silky yellowish acicular flattened aggregates.
0591 Thomsonite-Ca, Chabazite-Ca, Tylden quarry, Tylden, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3844, personally collected by Joan in 1992. Complex twinned chabazite.
0585 Sulphur, Sphalerite, Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England
Ex Joan Lamond 3016, received in a swap with Harry Critchley (UK).
0569 Plumbogummite, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3947, received in a swap with Jo Price (Melbourne). As white crusts and tiny white balls.
0565 Inesite, Fluorapophyllite-(K), Broken Hill, New South Wales
Inesite sprays that are pale pink with tan terminations, capped with colourless fluorapophyllite-(K). Specimen is 21mm wide.
0549 Ecdemite, Passa Limani Cove slag locality (Pacha Limani Cove slag locality), Passa Limani area, Lavrion District slag localities, Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium) District, Attik¡ (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece
Ex Joan Lamond 3719, received in a swap with Andre Heyninck (Belgium). Tiny yellow plates in slag. Also present are sprays of white acicular crystals labelled (erroneously I think) as calcite.
0540 Saleeite, Wycheproof granite quarry, Wycheproof, Victoria
Ex Joan Lamond 3836, received as a gift from Joan Sidaway (Bendigo).
0539 Nafertisite, Nanna pegmatite, Narsaarsuup Qaava, Narssarssuk (Narsarsuk), Igaliku (Igaliko), Narsaq, Kitaa (West Greenland) Province, Greenland
Ex Joan Lamond 3678, acquired from Museum Victoria. Brown, asbestos-like nafertisite, with aegirine(?).
0538 Gold, Macraes Mine (Round Hill Mine), Macraes Flat, Palmerston, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand
Ex Joan Lamond 3636, acquired as a swap with Jocelyn Thornton. Patch of gold in quartz with minor sulphide mineralisation, possibly arsenopyrite.
0537 Veszelyite, Black Pine Mine (Combination Mine; Black Pine Tailings; Black Pine Dump), Flint Creek Valley, John Long Mts, Philipsburg District (Flint Creek District), Granite Co., Montana, USA
Ex Joan Lamond 3195, but number does not match her Micro Collection Catalogue. Probably from her other mineral collection. Typical blue coloured crystals off matrix.
0536 Molybdenite, Mount Stronach, Scottsdale, Tasmania
Ex Joan Lamond 3934, received as a gift from Frank Robinson in 2002.
0535 Chenevixite, Chuquicamata Mine, Chuquicamata District, Calama, Chile
Listed as simply from Chile, but likely the famous Chuquicamata Mine. Rich with yellowish green chrystline material. Also has a few specks of dark green crystals.
0526 Silver, New Nevada Mine, Cerro San Antonio, San Miguel, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
Listed as Newny Mine but likely New NV (New Nevada). Numerous Native Silver crystals in a ‘v’ form with an irridescent lustre.
0519 Guettardite, Brobdignag Mine, Anvil Mountain, Red Mountain District, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA
Labelled as from Ouray, but probably Brobdignag Mine. Black lusterous material in vugs in broken surface of the specimen.
0518 Heyrovskite, Belvedere hotel, Furka, Furka pass area, Goms, Wallis, Switzerland
Metallic appearing off white, seems to be encased with yellowish white material. Look near center of specimen.
0513 Goethite, Mineral Hill Mine, Talingaboolba, Condobolin, New South Wales
Goethite pseudomorphs after smithsonite(?)
0505 Olivenite, Conichalcite?, Cornwallite?, Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
This 2.5 cm. x 1.3 cm. mount doesn’t require magnification to appreciate, and it could be displayed as a thumbnail. And then there’s the provenance, which features among other interesting aspects, the ID hand written...
0482 Quartz, Barite, Palomo Mine, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
A quartz pseudomorph after barite. Purchased at the 2013 Ballarat Gem Show.
0464 Sanidine, White Springs, Oregon, USA
Mounted on cork by the the late famous all-time master of micromounting, Neal Yedlin in a vintage cardboard box bearing his personal label on which he hand wrote the ID. Jack Slagle photos.
0421 Northupite, Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
Type locality. Single crystal from the 350 foot level. Collected around 1970.
0426 Boleite, Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia (El Boleo), Boleo District, Mun. de Mulege, Baja California Sur (BC Sur), Mexico
Boxed micromount with several cubic deep blue boleite crystals on matrix. These form in clay seams, so matrix specimens are fairly uncommon.
0424 Boleite, Pseudoboleite, Atacamite, Anglesite, Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia (El Boleo), Boleo District, Mun. de Mulege, Baja California Sur (BC Sur), Mexico
Boxed micromount with 6 tiny xl specimens mounted on a card. Specimens clockwise from top left: boleite cuboctahedron, cluster of boleite cuboctahedrons, pseudoboleite on boleite, atacamite, boleite cubes on white anglesite crystals. Centre: boleite cube.